, 1887-09-29
PIckingS.

S c. Courier, and q captain of the
Confederate army, demands that the
Grand Army of the Republic disband.
The eminent and widely known
mason, DR.. Rob. Morris of Kentucky.
Poet Laureate of Freemasonry, will
visit Washington during the coming
fall.
California officials estimate that the
influx OF immigrants to the Pacific
coast during 1887 will add 100000
to the permanent population of the
coast.
Ex-President Hayes and E1-Vice
President Hannibal Hamlin occupied
the stand with President Cleveland
at the centennial celebration in Phil
adelphia last Thursday.
A Philadelphia girl says, Really! a
Boston girl, All! a Chicago girl,
Which! Baltimore girl. Indeedea!
a Providence girl, He ow! London
girl, Fawncy! = Leadville girl, What
are you giving US?
The gross earning of the Northern
Pacific Express Company the past
year 1896, ,573, leaving a net income OF
SSO,979, after paying the railroad
company S273,933 for transportation,
q large increase over 1886.
Tho mail service has been placed
on 152 miles of railway built by the
Northern Pacific company between
Cle-Elum and Melrose. Washington
territory The line is on q direct
route between Portland and st. Paul.
The widows dover in all lands of
which her husband was seized at the
time of his death, was restored in all
the territories by the enactment of the
Edmunds law relating to Utah by the
last congress, unless she had Yolun-
tarily released such right.
Prof. o. S. Fowler, the once famous
phrenologist, died at his residence
near Sharon Station, Conn, Thurs
day. Phrenology was once quite q
science, but in those days of swelled
heads, sore heads, dead heads and
block heads, the phrenologist's pow
ers have proved inadequate to the Ne
cessities.
That laundering Burchard whoss
silly ALTERATION of the RS defeated
Blaine in 1884, has written a letter
endorsing President Cleveland and
predicting his reelection. He now
favors Cleveland. That is good fol-
Blaine. Burehard's support or rather
his laundering tongue is damage to
anybody whom he endorses.
President and Mrs. Cleveland will
leave next week, on Friday, for an
absence of three weeks in the west
and south. They will be accompanied
by no officials, the other members oil
the party being the Presidents pri-
Vate secretary, Colonel Lamont, and
two personal friends of the President
Mr.. Wilson S. Bissell, of Buffalo, n
Y.-hIs former law partner-and Jas.
d. Bryant, of New York, whs was a
member of his military staff while
governor.
The late Governor Bartlett, of
California, was born in Savannah, Ga.
in February, 1924. His ancestors
came over from England and settled
in Massachusetts; his great-grand-
father, Stephen Bartlett, was {
brother of Josiah Bartlett. one of the
signers OF the declaration Of indie
pendence. Washington Bartlett ar
rived in California in September
1S49. He was a aprinter, became &
lawyer, and held several minor offices
prior to his election as governor.
It has always been said that the
President is somewhat of q fatalist
and if he is he must have come to be-
lieve that flags are his @hoodoo'
Every time a flag is mentioned in
connection with Cleveland something
goes wrong. First there was the re
turn of the rebel battle flags, which
raised such q hullabaloo that he
wished the war had never been
fought. Next came the unpleasant
incident of the veterans declining to
march under flag adorned with the
Presidents likeness, because Trey, OF
some of them, believed that deliber.
ate insult was intended; and, last OF
all, comes the contretempts of Mrs
Cleveland's finding herself obliged to
decline the presenting of flags to the
firemen because her husband was
not invited to participate in the cere
monies.
Capt. VIM. j. Bryant, inspector OF
hulls, is credited by the Seattle P.-L.
with saying: "A company doing the
business of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company should have one
or two spare boats on the Sound in
case OF an emergency, but they have
not single one. The North Pacific,
Starr, Hayward and Idaho, and all
driven to death. The Starr is badly
in need of repair, having run steadily
for seven years without overhauiing,
and the North Pacific is also in need
of rest. If either Of these boats
should break down, and they are both
liable to, the company has no steamer
here to take her place. I understand
the now men under Potter's man
agement, are going to change all this
and would not be surprised if they
would build several steamers suitable
for the Sound trade, similar to the
North Pacific"
The Canadian Pacific railroad con-
tests the right of the Province OF
Manitoba to construct railway con-
Meeting the Northwest Territories
with the United States system OF
roads. It pleads the contract with
the Fe,lrrai Government of Canada
that for twenty years it would moi
permit the construction of any rail
road connecting the Northwest ter
ritorics with lines in the United
State.. On the faith of this pledge
the Canadian Pacific railroad was
built. The Government of Canada
has therefore used its power of dis
approval to prevent the Province OF
Manitoba from building such road
The people of the Province have al
ready graded such q road and are
likely TO come in collision with the
Federal Government in regard to It's
construction, although at present q
serious hitch has arisen owing to tie
difficulty about hoating bonds TO bay
tho rails